School: Scoil Sheosaimh Ntha (Cailíní)

Location:
Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Úna, Bean Uí Threasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0017, Page 215

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0017, Page 215

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  1. 1. When a person died it was the custom to divide clay pipes and tobacco to the people who came to the wakened funeral
    2.At the funeral they threw cloth over the coffin and carried it to the graveyard.One group of women went before the coffin and another group behind it.
    3.At the Church the corpse was left at the door and all the neighbours gathered to cry the dead person
    4. The surest sign of a deaths when hay flies away
    5.It is a great custom stop the clock when a person dies and it is left stopped until the corpse is removed
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. 1. long ago when the old people were to be married they went to the Chapel on horse-back.
    2. Then when they were gone to the Chapel the doors of the house were closed and nobody allowed in until the married couple came home first
    3. After they been they used to throw an old shoe after them and rice on them
    Frances Borely, From Tom Hussey,Scotland.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Frances Corely
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Tom Hussey
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Scotland, Co. Galway